“I could never talk to you/My tongue got stuck in my jaw.” (24-25) She gives the impression that she was a little intimidated by her father and could never find the courage to talk to “you”. Plath continues by using figurative language to make the reader imagine how she must have felt living in the situation she finds herself in. “He's stuck in a barbed wire trap./Ich, ich, ich, ich,/I could hardly speak. " (26-28) Here she uses a metaphor to compare the inability to speak with the tongue caught in a barbed wire trap. "Ich" means "I" in German, meaning that the speaker was so bogged down that she could barely uttering a word let alone a sentence. “I thought every German was you./And the obscene language.” (29-30) Here the speaker says she is shocked by the memories of her father because she thought every German.” it was him and that he found his tongue dirty or